About Osa
Osa Holmes is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and relationship or parenting concerns. She offers calm, practical support for grief, intimacy-related and eating issues, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and the strain of caregiving. Her approach aims to reduce upset and help people move toward steadier functioning.
In sessions she listens closely and helps clients name the problem they brought.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools to reduce panic, shift unhelpful thinking, and improve communication. Work can include short-term coping skills, exploring attachment patterns, or looking at how past losses show up now. Her background spans clinical, educational, and assessment roles.
She has run workshops for parents and classrooms and taught at the college level. She has also conducted behavioral health assessments for public agencies, and supervised students and early-career clinicians during their training. Osa draws on a mix of client-centered and evidence-informed techniques.
She brings mindfulness practices, cognitive strategies, and motivational interviewing to tailor the work to each person. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what the client needs. Based in Florida, she works with people seeking help for life transitions, trauma recovery, addiction concerns, and family or relationship stress.
She aims to create a space where clients can sort out what matters and take practical steps forward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. In online work this looks like talking about patterns in close relationships and noticing how those patterns affect trust and communication today. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to change mood and anxiety. Online CBT often uses practical exercises and short homework to build new habits between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and ease stress; these practices can be guided during video calls or reinforced via messaging.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls replicate a face-to-face conversation and let the therapist and client read visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English